Starving Maoris.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 32, 5 December 1905, Page 3

Starving Maoris.

BBSUIiT' OF THE POTATO BLIOHT. Reports received m Wanganui state that many natives on the Wanganui River are m sore straits for food owing to the potatoes last year being ruined by the potato blight. Many families are said to be practically starving, and reduced to living on ferns and. such other food as they can obtain out of the bush. They have no seed potatoes to plant for. the next winter's food supply. The schoolmaster at Pipiriki says that many .of the native children attending school there are without food except for what they obtain m the bush, while the Roman Catholic priest ot Jerusalum writes that little children there are practically foodless, and there is urgent need for reliefThe Premier has been approached, and hag promised some assistance."